The Research Seminars in Economics organised by the Economics at King's initiative take place (roughly) every second week on Wednesdays, 14.00-15.15.
The seminars are jointly organised by the Economics Group of King's Business School, economists at the Department of Political Economy and the Department of International Development.
For questions about this seminar series, please contact economics.seminars@kcl.ac.uk.
Please see the archives for previous research seminars.
Other seminar series organised by Economists at King's include: Research Seminars in Banking & Finance, Qatar Centre for Global Banking & Finance Virtual Seminar Series, and Quantitative Political Economy brown-bag seminar series
Economics seminars for the academic year 2022-2023
Semester 1
- 5 October 2022 – Bush House Lecture Theatre 3 (NE) 0.01
Ghazala Azmat (Paris Sciences Po) – “ICT and Student Learning”
- 12 October 2022 [Joint seminar with Banking & Finance department, BH (NE) 2.03, 15.00-16.00]
Thomas Lubik (Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond) - “Searching for Hysteresis”
- 19 October 2022 – Bush House Lecture Theatre 3 (NE) 0.01
Anthony Savagar (University of Kent) – “Returns to Scale and Productivity in the Macroeconomy”
- 26 October 2022 [Catered brown bag seminar, Bush House (SE) 2.10, 13.00-14.00]
Vladimir Tyazhelnikov (University of Sydney) – “Russian Counter-Sanctions and Smuggling: Forensics with Structural Gravity Estimation”
- 2 November 2022 – Bush House Lecture Theatre 3 (NE) 0.01
Frank Schilbach (MIT Economics) – “Not Learning from Others” & “Learning in the Household”
- 9 November 2022 – Bush House Lecture Theatre 3 (NE) 0.01
Sonia Bhalotra (University of Warwick) – “Antidepressant Use and School Academic Achievement”
- 23 November 2022 – Bush House Lecture Theatre 3 (NE) 0.01
Imran Rasul (University College London) – “Distributional Impacts of Early Childhood Interventions Within Families: Experimental Evidence from Nigeria”
- 7 December 2022 – Bush House Lecture Theatre 3 (NE) 0.01
Michael Vlassopoulos (University of Southampton) – “Ethnic Mixing in Early Childhood: Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment and a Structural Model”
Semester 2
- 18 January 2023 – no seminar
- 1 February 2023 – Bush House (S) 2.03
Gabriella Conti (University College London) – cancelled
- 15 February 2023 – Bush House Lecture Theatre 3 (NE) 0.01
Abi Adams-Prassl (University of Oxford) – “TBA”
- 8 March 2023 – Bush House Lecture Theatre 3 (NE) 0.01
Friederike Mengel (University of Essex) – “Influence in Social Network”
- 22 March 2023 – Bush House Lecture Theatre 3 (NE) 0.01
Andrea Tesei (Queen Mary University) – “Mobile Internet and the Rise of Communitarian Politics in Europe”
- 19 April 2023 – Room TBD
Joachim Voth (University of Zurich) – “TBA”